Today my Mom did a very hard thing and took Mittens, the family cat, to be put to sleep. She lived 21 years. 21! My mom is a good kitty mama. And Mitty was an awesome cat. You should have seen all the things she killed in her heyday. Mice trembled at the sound of her name. I gave her that stup...

Writing about writing is like movies about dancing about architecture. The second I begin I immediately cringe at the words I've chosen to group with those other words because it is writing about writing, so by God, it had better be good writing. This writing is about writing. It's writing about...

I love San Francisco, but I am leaving it. I'm moving to New York City. Two months ago I took a job as the marketing and outreach person at Modest Needs Foundation, and oh, how fun I thought it would be to work from home and make my own hours. I would go the gym every day! I would blog in the p...